Aperture Brushes - mouse/pointer is jumping/skipping/delayed

I'm having an issue using the brushes in aperture 3. The mouse slows down and speeds up rapidly while I'm trying to brush.
An example - I add the black and white adjustment, and then start to brush black & white away, leaving one area in color. The first stroke works great, but I can tell it's processing the image and takes a few moments to show the result. Not big deal there. I got do a few more stokes, and suddenly the mouse jumps to another area of the screen when i start to move my mouse, as if the tracking was turned up 1000% (not exaggerating, a tiny motion flies the pointer from the left to the right side of the screen.)
I'm using a trackpad, but I plugged in a plain 'ol USB mouse and it did the same thing. Only happens in Aperture. Editing Canon 40D raws.
Ideas? Anyone else experience this?
Message was edited by: Vengance

Exact same thing here, using my Macbook Pro… it's been driving me crazy while editing.
But for me the issue didn't start with Aperture 3 - it actually began happening a few weeks ago while using Aperture 2.1.4, just randomly during any type of edit. Aperture has been installed since this machine was brand new, 16 months ago, and on previous Macbook Pros before this one, and this is the first time I've ever had such an issue... which makes me think it's either related to some other relatively recent software update (Mac OS X 10.6.2, perhaps?) or that my Macbook Pro has reached an age (16 months) where its trackpad has decided to malfunction just a little.
I'm really hoping that it isn't the latter. The issue only shows up in Aperture (2 or 3), and only on my Macbook Pro; no mouse-jumping so far in Aperture or any other software on my iMac.

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